While sitting at the long table (Ralph’s creation), a table customers immediately encounter when entering their place of business, Ralph and Mary Valdrighi recall happenings during their 30 years of owning and operating The Seabreeze Restaurant on Gwynn’s Island.

With a record of outstanding community assistance and a supper menu of spaghetti, salad, homemade bread, beverage and cake (“We’re blessed to have the girls help us out”), the United Methodist Men of Mathews certainly have fulfilled all goals and possibly more.

Combining her love for the county where she was residing with the ability to foresee what would be an asset to Gloucester, Tusnee McDaniel and her husband Kerry opened Bangkok Noi Thai Cuisine restaurant in 2008.